[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-432953-105":59,"doc-detail-432953-en":129},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":122,"head_meta":124,"extra_data":126,"updated_unix":128},105,"en","blood-and-dreams-read-online","Blood and Dreams - read online","","Blood and Dreams presents a gritty, visceral collection of urban struggle shaped by vivid, precise storytelling and intimate reflection. Across the poems, devastation unfolds through remembered Africa and the harsh realities of a world gone mad, while buried scabs of experience are exposed with expert control. The work connects personal pain to shared responsibility, emphasizing common scars amid late-decade wars and fading mentorship, where identities and ancestry can be forgotten.",{"@graph":69,"@context":121},[70,84,104],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":15,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/blood-and-dreams-read-online/432953/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":98,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":99,"interactionStatistic":100},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/blood-and-dreams-read-online/432953.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"MrHarris58","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-09-29",true,{"@type":101,"interactionType":102,"userInteractionCount":4},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":103},"ViewAction",{"@type":105,"mainEntity":106},"FAQPage",[107,113,117],{"name":108,"@type":109,"acceptedAnswer":110},"What themes drive the poems in Blood and Dreams?","Question",{"text":111,"@type":112},"The poems focus on urban struggle, devastation, and pain, set against memories of Africa and the sense of shared responsibility through common scars.","Answer",{"name":114,"@type":109,"acceptedAnswer":115},"How does the collection treat memory and ancestry?",{"text":116,"@type":112},"It juxtaposes remembered Africa with a world in turmoil, highlighting moments when people may forget their ancestry as mentors disappear.",{"name":118,"@type":109,"acceptedAnswer":119},"What is the overall emotional purpose of the book?",{"text":120,"@type":112},"It aims to bring buried wounds into view—treating painful experiences with precision—so readers recognize the blood and “clotted dreams” beneath the surface.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":123,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":125,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":127,"site_id":62},432953,1790662071,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":130},{"doc_id":127,"user_id":131,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":132,"doc_module":4,"category_id":14,"category_name":15,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":133,"file_id":134,"file_url":135,"file_type":136,"file_size":137,"view_count":4,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":138,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":128,"read_time":16},687212988360,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_276721f389ce27ea32af1340a28f341c","# Blood and Dreams\n\nGilbert Ayotunde Ndako Abraham  \nGilbert Abraham's Blood and Dreams is an amazing accom-plishment,a gritty,visceral,and elegant work.He pens thedevastation of a world gone mad in such vivid colors as todenote the hope he sees fluttering on the horizon's edge.Hischoice of subject is superb:tales of urban struggle and painjuxtaposed against memories of an Africa that is both familiarand alien to the reader.His unpretentious storytelling bringsus all back to those scabs we cannot quite bear to touch andrips them off for us with expert precision,exposing all theblood and clotted dreams that have been buried beneaththem.We are made to realize that we are all responsible foreach other and that we all share the same scars.Amid the warsand rumors of wars in this late part of the decade,we aregranted a slice of the world inside Abraham's head,onewhere mentors are becoming extinct and people are forget-ting their ancestry.Shinc on,beautiful poet.These words area gift from your Creator.  \n一Marlon Carey  \nBlood and Dreams  \nGilbert Ayotunde Ndako Abraham  \nST.ANDREWS COLLEGE PRESSLAURINBURG,NORTH CAROLINA  \nThis book is made possible through theRichard Walser and Bernice Kelly Harris Fundof the Hanes Charitable Lcad Trust.  \nSlightly different versions of the following poems havebeen published previously:  \n“Angcl of Death”(Gravity HillVolume One)“Dream”(CAIRN37)  \n“Dream Too”(Gravity Hill Volume One)  \n\"Hemorrhaged Cuticles\"(Gravity HillVolume Two,Gilbert-Chappell Award Winners'Journal2004)  \n“Outside the Window”(Gilbert-Chappell Award Winners'Journal2004)  \nCover art:Tosin Abraham and Gilbert Abraham  \nDesign and typesetting:Caitlin Johnson  \nCopyright C2009 by Gilbert Abraham  \nST.ANDREWS COLLEGE PRESS1700 Dogwood MileLaurinburg,North Carolina 28352  \nISBN:978-1-59948-181-4  \nProduced in the United States of America bythe Main Street Rag Publishing Companywww.MainStreetRag.com  \nFor the muse.  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2012  \nhttp://archive.org/details/blooddreams00abra  \nCONTENTS  \nCarlito11Hemorrhaged Cuticles12Outside thc Window14Scab15My Mentors Are Dead16Rverbed17Ole18Collapse20Lady in the Water21One22My Chargc:Ode to Jaki Shelton Grccn23Li Po24Finding Bayes25Coup26Fleeting Star28The Capitol29For Keyes30Devil's Drcam31Agbaya32Tovarish33Angel of Death34Phoenix35Empathetic Hand36Marching Through Avalon37Dream38Sand40Dream Too41Floor to Sink43A HillNot Quite Calvary45","cbCaigOn1tOXkguV","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigOn1tOXkguV","pdf",2054131,52,"English","# Contents\n## Carlito\n## Hemorrhaged Cuticles\n## Outside the Window\n## Scab\n## My Mentors Are Dead\n## Rverbed\n## Ole\n## Collapse\n## Lady in the Water\n## One\n## My Chargc: Ode to Jaki Shelton Grccn\n## Li Po\n## Finding Bayes\n## Coup\n## Fleeting Star\n## The Capitol\n## For Keyes\n## Devil's Drcam\n## Agbaya\n## Tovarish\n## Angel of Death\n## Phoenix\n## Empathetic Hand\n## Marching Through Avalon\n## Dream\n## Sand\n## Dream Too\n## Floor to Sink\n## A Hill Not Quite Calvary","[{\"question\":\"What themes drive the poems in Blood and Dreams?\",\"answer\":\"The poems focus on urban struggle, devastation, and pain, set against memories of Africa and the sense of shared responsibility through common scars.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the collection treat memory and ancestry?\",\"answer\":\"It juxtaposes remembered Africa with a world in turmoil, highlighting moments when people may forget their ancestry as mentors disappear.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the overall emotional purpose of the book?\",\"answer\":\"It aims to bring buried wounds into view—treating painful experiences with precision—so readers recognize the blood and “clotted dreams” beneath the surface.\"}]","Blood and Dreams - read online | PDF"]